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Seth Godin’s Word of the Day: Revolution

Yesterday I posted my very first Seth Godin’s Word of the Day, which was “Excoriate“.  And continuing in my long standing tradition (1 day) today’s word from Seth is a bit less extravagant but powerful none the less, especially in the context in which he uses the word. Seth Godin’s Word of the Day:  Revolution Sentence (from […]

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Guy Fawkes Emulated in Anonymous Threat To Kill Facebook

In the wake of the threat to kill Facebook on November 5, 2011 by hacker collective Anonymous, the historical figure Guy Fawkes is starting to be looked at pretty intensely.  It is apparent that Anonymous is emulating the threat, or the date, of where Guy Fawkes threatened to take down Parliament on November 5th.  Ironically, […]

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Seth Godin’s Word of the Day: Excoriate

I love Seth Godin and look forward to reading his daily blog post each morning.  In fact, it’s always one of the first emails I open each day.  I’ve noticed, however, that in his blog posts, he will occasionally drop a seriously heavy word on his readers.  I have found myself, numerous times, having to […]

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Virginia Tech On Lockdown After A Gunman Threat

Virginia Tech has issued a lockdown and cancelled classes for the rest of the day today due to a potential threat from a gunman on campus. The Virginia Tech website issued the following warning: Students are asked not to come to campus. The university understands that it has been several hours since this began.   Many […]

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Oh no, my mom’s a blogger

My parents have always been technology savvy: my dad had a computer in the the early 80’s and my parents (dad and step mom) met on the internet in the 90’s before it was considered socially acceptable. In fact, my dad has had a twitter account for a couple years and I have yet to […]

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25% Of Auto Accidents in the U.S. Caused by Texting & Driving

Now I know that you would never do this, but people are prone to texting and / or browsing the web on the mobile phone or tablets while driving their car. Again, not you because I know you would never do that… “other” people do it! Anyway, a new study is out from the Governors […]

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Olivia Wilde Doesn’t Wear Makeup, Hits Front Page of Yahoo.com

It never ceases to amaze me at goes viral on the web.  I mean, when a star like Olivia Wilde doesn’t wear makeup, the news elevates to the front page of Yahoo.com.  You’d think that the people of this world would find other snippets of news more engaging, but nope… Olivia Wilde shows up somewhere […]